16 June

Born in 1792 – John Linnell, English painter and engraver.

Above: Reapers, Noonday Rest, 1865

Also, born in 1723 Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith.

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

Previously on June 5, Linnell and Smith.